Frame for muff-bags.



PATENTEDJULY 23', 1907.

J. F. BIEDA.

FRAME FOR, MUFP BAGS.

APPLIOATION 11.21) MAY 2, 1901.

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FRAME FOR MUFF-BAGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 23, 1907.

Application filed May 2, 1907. Serial No 371,369.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN FRANK BIEDA, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, and residing at London, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Frames for Muff-Bags and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to frames for opening and closing muff-bags garment-pockets and the like, hereinafter referred to as muff-bags, to which the invention is particularly applicable.

Existing frames of the kind comprise locks catches bolts or like fastenings adapted to lock the frame parts when closed together, and require the frame parts to be compressed together when closing the muff-bag, in some cases against the action of a spring which serves to open the frame upon the lock being unfastened. This compressing action is of disadvantage, in that, when such frames are fitted .to muffs and like articles made of costly furs or the like, the constant repetition of the pressure necessary to close the frame parts together until they are locked, quickly wears the muff material, rendering the muff unsightly and considerably reducing its value. Moreover, such frames cannot be located invisibly between the bag and the muff, and consequently, require to be of a presentable finish, and of a more costlyconstruction than would be required if they were so located. Moreover, such frames, when the locking means are unfastened, always open to the fullest extent and expose the whole contents of the bag, and, in those having springs which serve to open them, the frames are thereby jerked open, when the locking means are unfastened, with the liability and frequent occurrence of some of the contents of the bag being jerked out. Further, such frames have singly-placed holes for the rivets by which the frame and the bag are secured together, and, as the rivets require to be removed when the muff is to be cleaned relined or repaired and the frame is made of very thin metal, the rivet holes get quickly enlarged and the frame gets crippled and at times cannot be re-fitted and requires to be replaced.

The present invention has for its object to avoid these and other disadvantages incidental to such frames, and to enable the frame parts to be closed to gether and to be maintained closed, automatically, and to be separated or opened apart to any required extent by an action of the user in opposition to that of the means serving to close and to keep closed the frame parts, in such manner that both the opening and the closing of the frame parts will be under the control of the user exercised from the muff interior, and also to enable the frame parts to be fitted to and removed from the bag by any one without needing the services of a riveter and without liability of dam-- age to the frame and to enable the frame to be repeatedly re-used.

The accompanying drawings, in Figures, 1 and 2, represent perspective views of the improved frame, respectively showing the same closed and opened, and, in Fig, 3, represent a sectional view of a muff-bag fitted with the improved frame.

The improved frame consists of opposite meeting frame parts, a, b, which are hinged together, at c, d, and have oppositely projecting parts, e, f, and of a spring, 9, located between the parts, 0, f, the spring operating to separate the parts, e, f, and to close the frame parts, a, b, together and normally to keep the frame parts closed together, and the parts, a, f, when compressed together, serving to counteract the operation of the spring and to separate the frame parts, a, b, i

The frame part, a, (which is secured to the flap or opening part, Z, of the bag) has its sides strutted apart by a cross piece, a, and is fast to the control part, e, and the frame part, b, (which is secured to the muffbag, 71) is fast to the control part, f, and the spring, 9,

is located on the hinged pin, d, with its ends acting against the parts, e, f.

The frame parts, a, b, may be made of aluminium or other suitable metal, of plain flat metal or of metal flat on the meeting side and round on the outer side, or of whale-bone or of other suitable material, and are perforated with holes, h, in pairs, and grooved, as at JP, on the meeting side between each pair, so as to enable the frame to be fitted in the bag by sewing thread or by embroidery wire or by easily removable staples which will lay in the grooves.

The described improved construction enables the frame to be inserted between the bag and the muff materials, 2', Ir, Fig. 3, thus enablingaless highly finished or cheaper construction of frame to be used, and withal obtaining a much neater appearance of the muff-bag, than when lock-fitted frames are used, though, with a better finished frame, the same may be fitted visibly inside the muff-bag if required.

In fitting the frame to the muff-bag, the parts, e, f, are located so as to project inwardly of the muff, so that they can be manipulated so as to open or close the bag-flap by the hand inside and carrying the muff,

Fig, 3, While the other hand can be used to place any article in or to remove any article from the bag from outside the muff.

The improved frames may have inner purse-frames structurally combined With them in usual manner.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is'.

1. In combination, a frame consisting of two opposing jaw parts connected together in a hinge like manner and respectively adapted to be attached to corresponding opposing parts of the mouth of a mutt-bag, spring means tending to keep the jaws of the frame closed together, and finger-pieces on the jaws for opening the jaws apart against the action of the spring means and for controlling the closing of the jaws.

2. In combination, a frame consisting of two opposing jaw parts connected together in a hinge like manner and respectively adapted to be attached to corresponding opposing parts of the mouth of a muff-bag, spring means tending to keep the jaws of the frame closed together, and angularly disposed projections at one side of the frame on the respective jaws, said extensions serving on being pressed together to open the jaws apart against the action of the spring means, and to control the closing of the jaws.

3. In combination, a frame consisting of two opposing jaw parts connected together at each side by pivotal means and respectively adapted to be attached to corresponding opposing parts of the mouth of a muff-bag, angularly disposed members respectively made fast to the respective jaws in proximity to the pivotal means at one side of the frame, and a spring located between the extensions, the spring tending to keep the extensions apart and the jaws closed, and the extensions serving on being pressed together by hand to open the jaws against the action of the spring, and to control the closing of the jaws.

4. In combination, a frame consisting of two opposing jaw parts connected together at each side by a pivot and having on their meeting faces a plurality of grooves ter minating in through holes to adapt them to be readily attached by sewing or the like to the corresponding parts of the mouth of a muff-bag, angularly disposed extensions mounted at one side of the frame on the respective jaws near one of said pivots, and a coiled spring surrounding said latter pivot and having its ends bearing against the inner faces of the extensions, the spring tending to keep the extensions apart and the jaws closed, and the extensions serving on being brought together by hand, to open the jaws against the action of the spring, and to control the closing of the jaws.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

JOIIN FRANK BIEDA.

Witnesses CHARLES AUBREY DAY, ARTHUR SVALTER DAY. 

